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EMNLP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
A Discriminative Model for Tree-to-Tree Translation
This paper proposes a statistical, treeto-tree model for producing translations. Two main contributions are as follows: (1) a method for the extraction of syntactic structures wit...
Brooke Cowan, Ivona Kucerova, Michael Collins
EMNLP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Capturing Out-of-Vocabulary Words in Arabic Text
The increasing flow of information between languages has led to a rise in the frequency of non-native or loan words, where terms of one language appear transliterated in another. ...
Abdusalam F. A. Nwesri, Seyed M. M. Tahaghoghi, Fa...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Learning Field Compatibilities to Extract Database Records from Unstructured Text
Named-entity recognition systems extract entities such as people, organizations, and locations from unstructured text. Rather than extract these mentions in isolation, this paper ...
Michael L. Wick, Aron Culotta, Andrew McCallum
EMNLP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Learning Phrasal Categories
In this work we learn clusters of contextual annotations for non-terminals in the Penn Treebank. Perhaps the best way to think about this problem is to contrast our work with that...
William P. Headden III, Eugene Charniak, Mark John...
EMNLP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
The impact of parse quality on syntactically-informed statistical machine translation
We investigate the impact of parse quality on a syntactically-informed statistical machine translation system applied to technical text. We vary parse quality by varying the amoun...
Chris Quirk, Simon Corston-Oliver
EMNLP
2006
13 years 5 months ago
Identification of Event Mentions and their Semantic Class
Complex tasks like question answering need to be able to identify events in text and the relations among those events. We show that this event identification task and a related ta...
Steven Bethard, James H. Martin
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Sentiment Analysis using Support Vector Machines with Diverse Information Sources
This paper introduces an approach to sentiment analysis which uses support vector machines (SVMs) to bring together diverse sources of potentially pertinent information, including...
Tony Mullen, Nigel Collier
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Unsupervised WSD based on Automatically Retrieved Examples: The Importance of Bias
This paper explores the large-scale acquisition of sense-tagged examples for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). We have applied the "WordNet monosemous relatives" method t...
Eneko Agirre, David Martínez
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Comparing and Combining Generative and Posterior Probability Models: Some Advances in Sentence Boundary Detection in Speech
We compare and contrast two different models for detecting sentence-like units in continuous speech. The first approach uses hidden Markov sequence models based on N-grams and max...
Yang Liu, Andreas Stolcke, Elizabeth Shriberg, Mar...
EMNLP
2004
13 years 5 months ago
Attribute-Based and Value-Based Clustering: An Evaluation
In most research on concept acquisition from corpora, concepts are modeled as vectors of relations extracted from syntactic structures. In the case of modifiers, these relations o...
Abdulrahman Almuhareb, Massimo Poesio